Using Python Faker library to generate dummy data

Kulasangar Gowrisangar
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readDec 26, 2022

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What is dummy data?

This type of data is typically used in Software Development, Unit Testing, ML model training, Data Analysis etc to prevent from using sensitive data for the above use cases. Also while generating random data, you as a developer can make sure to cross-check all your validations when it comes to testing.

Creating fake data manually would be a daunting task for anyone, hence there’re multiple libraries out there to ease the process. So in this blog post I’ll be explaining how we can use the…

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